#heap

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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My biggest problem in my life is I'm cheap and I didn't hire a publicist. In every awkward interview, normally actors get these things scripted. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#biggest #biggest problem #cheap #every #get

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#bottom #company #forward #heap #may

True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going. ↗

— Robert Reich

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We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. ↗

— Cecil Rhodes

#available #cheap #colonies #dumping #easily

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#become #callousness #cheapen #child #common

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

#choice #complain #easy #god #grumble

If the price is very cheap then it's almost certainly a fake. ↗

— David Russell

#certainly #cheap #fake #price #then

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good. ↗

— Richard Russo

#ago #anything #books #bought #cheap

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#cheaper #coal #colombia #down #draw